Villa San Giuseppe care home (Italy)
On November 27th Dr Galasso – secretary general of HOSPITALITY EUROPE – visited the Villa San Giuseppe nursing home of the Sisters Hospitallers’ Italian Province. This is a social/health care centre interested in partnering future European addiction prevention and rehabilitation therapy projects. Villa San Giuseppe is a residential facility with more than 90 beds, accommodating patients in general psychiatry and alcohol-dependency rehabilitation wards, and is a protected residence providing dementia and post-acute long-term care.
AGELESS project: publication of the handbook and protocol
After the three workshops in Gijón, Paris and Funchal, the partners of the AGELESS project, the acronym for its English title ‘Preventing premature ageing through sport and social inclusion’, have drafted and published the two documents that bring together their respective experiences and the most innovative methods for improving the role of actors such as health professionals, sports instructors and family carers in motivating the most vulnerable and disadvantaged people to engage in regular motor activity and physical exercise in order to prevent the risk of premature ageing to which they are exposed.